Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Joy Williams

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Kevin Barry

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

Keith Gessen

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

Karen Russell

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

Kevin Spacey

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so that was kind of interesting to me.

Lizzy Caplan

I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.

Laurie Graham

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Louis C. K.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Lorrie Moore

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Larry Niven

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

Louise Penny

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

Leonard Alfred George Strong

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Maya Angelou

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Martin Amis

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

Morley Callaghan

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Mos Def

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Mia Farrow